Refrigerator-counter.



M1. NOWACZYK.

REFRIGERATOR COUNTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I9. I9I5.

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MAXIMILLIIAYN J'.A NOWACZYK, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

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To all lwhom 'it may concern.'

. Be it known that I, llMIAXiMiLLiAiI J. No-

wAczYK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent andState of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerator-Counters, of which the following is ka specification.

My invention relates to improvements m appliances for cooling f and keeping cool vegetables, meats, 81e., in stores, meatmarkets and similar places, and-,its objects are irst, to provide a means whereby an even,L

' consistent temperature may be .produced and' retained in large storage spaces, as on long counters or rshow cases; second, to secure perfect drainage in cooling appliances of unusual length, and, third, to provide a `means whereby the partsmay be readilyl p ,cold water "that drips frOIIlv the C- Will removed and renovated as desired.

I attain these objects by the arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional `elevation of a counter and my cooler in position thereon; Fig.v 2 is a trans#v verse section of my appliance on the line a', of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detached sectional view of afI part of the vdraining appliances; Fig. 1 lis a transverse section of the same; Fig.v 5 is a plan of one of the draining grates.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing A repre# sents'the cooler case which\may be inclosed with glass panels, as indicated at a'ain Figs. 1 and 2. B, B are the storage Chanilthe ice box chamber.

bers for the material to' be cooled, and C is At each side ofthis chamber, and between it and the chambers B, B I place a partition J which is, preferably, made open in spaces as indicated at the cooled. air from the ice box into the storage chambers. In the ice box I place af water tight bottom E which has downwardly turned lianges e e atthe ends, and above this bottom I place. a grate D, provided with open spaces d, .d for the free passage of water ask the ice melts. The storage chambers B, B are also provided with like grates, as shown in Fig. 1, but the floors of thesefchambers consist of shallow pans, F, F, formed with high side walls and an out turning flange f^that`rests on the flanges g, g, of the subloor G; and with low walls, f,v at one end so arranged that when these pans have been properly placed in the chambers B, B the floor Df may be placed in position with its flanges e, e passing inside the pans and engaging with specification of Lettersraiem.. pmmd Aue; 7, 1917,

yApplication filed April 19, 1915. Serial No. 22,1183.

the walls f, of the pans F, F, to form a I* passage for water that will positively preclude the possibility of any water leaking from lthe floor D directly `onto the subiioor G. The other, or outer ends of the pans, F, F are, also provided with the low walls f' designed to hold a small quantity of icy' water in the pans before it can flow off onto the subfloor G, for the purpose of utilizing the influence 'of the cold-water immediately after it has passed from the melting ice, as long as possible upon the contents of the chambers B, B, especially in extremely warm weather. By this means the naturally settle to the bottom as it moves toward the discharge ends of the pans, so that only the warmer water will drip out of the pans, thus keeping the water in the pans very close to the freezing point. This absolutely prevents any warm air from rising i to contact with the bottoms of the vegetable or provision chambers, and greatly economizes the ice consumption. For cool weather use small openings b, b 'may be made at the bottom yof the pans so any water that may drip from the ice chamber intothese pans may flow out immediately without any accumulation of water in the pans.

L The .sub-floor G, G,is provided with upf wardly extending side and end walls, and outwardly extending flanges g, g arranged to engage andrest upon the rails H, H of the case to support the floors, and with upwardlyextending lianges or rims g', vdesigned to prevent any foul matter from the contents of the chambers B, B from escaping from the grates D, D to' the outer sursupports the case A. The bottoms of the pans F, F incline downward from their inner ends, as indicated in Fig. 1, so that water dripping into the inner ends of the pans will flow toward the low end walls f until it reaches the top of said walls when lcs the dept-hV- of'water in the pans will be as indicated by the dotted lines extending from the tops of said en d walls tothe inner end of the pans, in said Fig. 1. The sub-floor G, G inclines downward from the outer ends. at II,"I'I- to the center of the case soy that faces of -the case-or onto the counter L that ,190

water dripping from the pans F, F onto the sub-floors will flow toward and out .of the drain pipe K, inthe direction of the arrows in Fig. 1, vthus always keeping the pans and floors well drained at all t-imes, no matter how fast the ice in the chamber Cumay 'be melting. I, in Fig. 2, represents a cake of ice in the ice chamber C, looking to the left `from the dotted lines a', w, 'Fig 1 being,

,refrigerator well renovated at vall times.

The drain pipe K stops just at the upper line of the funnel la, and the trap Kt is designed to cut off any possibility of sewer gas entering the space below the refrigerator case A. The pipe K is left open above the funnel 7c for the purpose of allowing the cold air that accumulates in the space between the pans' F, F, and the oor Gr topass down and out, thus preventing the aecumulation of foulair in the refrigerator,

\ the flow or dripping of water through the pipe K being so -small that it will not only not obstruct the passage of air therethrough, but will facilitate it. v

It will be readily understood from the foregoing description and the accompanying drawing that the air circulation in this refrigerator must `be directly fromr the chamber C' in opposite directions over the contents of the chambers B, B and then around the ends of the pans F, F into the space between the pansF, F and the floor G and out of the pipe K, insuring a perfect circulation of pure cold air at all times from the ice box through the provision chambers, thus rendering it possible to store smoked meats,

or other strong odored substances in one end of the refrigerator, and the most delicate viands in the other end without 'danger of either becoming tainted from the other.

'The arrows shown in the chambers B, B and C and in the flue between the pans F, F andthe Hoor G, G, indicate the air 'circulation from the ice chamber C through the provision chambers B, B into thefluel between the pans F, F and the floorv G, whence it escapes through the pipe K andout over the funnel 1c, as hereinbefore stated. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A. counter refrigerator lhaving a central ice chamber and a provision chamber at each side thereof; in combination with a cold water retaining pan below each provision chamber, the outer ends ofsaid wa ter pans being a little lower thanthe side floor belowthe ice chamber and the provision chambers except at the ends of the case, said closed floor inclining downward toward the 'center of the refrigerator case, and a drainage pipe connected therewith.

2. In a counter refrigerator, a central ice chamber, Ya provision chamber at each end low the ice chamber, a water pan extending from each end of the ice chamber ioor to a position near each end of 4the refrigerator case forming a water and air tight licor below the ice chamber/and the provision chambers except at the extreme outer ends ofthe pans, a water tight floor below the water pans forming an incline downward from each end toward the center of the case, and a ldrainpipe connected therewith, all arranged to cause a current Vof cold air to pass from the ice chamber through each `provision chamber anddownward past the ends of the water pans and along the surface of the inclined floorto and out of the drain pipe.

3. A refrigerator having a provision chamber at each end and an ice chamber between the/provision chambers, means for air circulation from the ice chamber through both provision chambers, cold water containing pans Ilocated under the provision chambers, a water tight floor under the ice chamber, means for causing all water from melting ice 'to flow into the water pans, said pans so arranged that water can flow out overI their outer ends only, a floor below `the pans inclining from each outer end downward toward the center, the ice chamber l so of the ice chamber, a water tight floorf'befloor and the water pans forming a water K tight partition between the chambers,'and said inclined floor, except at the outer ends of the pans, and a drain pipe connected with the floor.

Signed at kGrand Rapids 15, 1915.v

MAXIMILLlAN J. NOWACZYK.

Michigan April 

